The past few weeks brought a clear signal: decentralization is winning.
Across industries, from finance to media, centralized power structures are losing their grip, and individuals are reclaiming the freedoms to transact, speak, and innovate.
Freedom is not one thing. Freedom is freedoms, interconnected.
And we've entered a period where shifts like these will happen across several industries which will unleash a domino effect so big that the world will truly see why decentralization matters more than ever.
We saw in the wake of Trump’s re-election.
A wave of anti-Trump journalists, commentators, and companies across many industries collectively rage-quit X for platforms like Bluesky.
Their motivation was that X no longer aligned with their values, as the platform increasingly favored open debate and minimized centralized moderation.
But Bluesky, the preffered refuge for these dissenters, quickly turned into a woke dumpster fire.
It took a few days before the platform announced an all-time high in user complaints.
First, new users became unhappy with the discourse they encountered. Then, the irony reached its peak when some of these same users began facing bans for claims that the election was rigged. 😂
These were the same people wanting stricter moderation policies on X, only to get the punishment they wanted to impose on other on themselves. On Bluesky.
What a *chef's kiss*-worthy karmic twist.
This exodus and the ensuing chaos on Bluesky is a perfect visual on centralized control and how platforms that try to act as gatekeepers in the end alienate large segments of their users.
For decades, journalists acted as these gatekeepers of public discourse. They decided what narratives were acceptable and shaped public opinion to fit their own views.
Their control was rarely challenged until platforms like X gave ordinary people a voice.
The one form of equality these journalists always resist is the idea that everyone is now equal to a journalist. pic.twitter.com/jyTT2mnUoM
— Balaji (@balajis) November 25, 2024
What happened next was inevitable: the disconnect between the public and the journalistic elite got exposed.
The shift that's happening now is that most people no longer think the way traditional media does, and as the conversations on X grow louder, legacy institutions struggles to retain their influence.
Now, we’re witnessing the fallout.
The very journalists and companies that once dictated public narratives are fleeing platforms that no longer cater to their centralized vision of control.
They’re running from the open exchange of ideas because it reveals just how out of touch they’ve become.
The era of centralized narratives is over.
